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OpenRail

Advancing BIM for Rail from Planning to Performance

Rail and Transit Infrastructure Lifecycle Solution

OpenRail is your complete solution that comprises applications and services for rail and transit infrastructure from design through operations. OpenRail delivers enhanced collaboration and coordination and enables the conceptual and detailed design, construction, operation, and maintenance of rail infrastructure assets, combining digital components, context and workflows, while ensuring compliance with requirements using a systems engineering approach. This is made possible by applications integrated within a connected data environment provisioned in the Microsoft Azure cloud.

OpenRail leverages your existing investment in BIM through its connected data environment (CDE). OpenRail manages organizational, project, and asset workflows and promotes adherence to industry standards such as PAS 1192. OpenRail enables rail and transit organizations to gain insights into data from multiple sources and in different formats, providing information mobility across phases and disciplines, as well as between Bentley and third-party software. OpenRail streamlines multi-discipline design, construction and project handover, providing industry professionals access to the trusted information needed to transform project and organizational performance. It ensures information created during project delivery can be made available to owner-operators, enabling more informed decisions during operations, and optimized asset performance.

The OpenRail CDE establishes an open framework for collaboration and asset information management throughout the lifecycle of rail and transit infrastructure, delivering safe, reliable, and cost-effective service. Spanning project planning and delivery, through asset management and performance, OpenRail CDE is the common source of information, used to collect, manage, and share information about digital railway assets throughout their lifecycle. You can ensure the accuracy and availability of survey, design, construction, and operational documents and data at every stage of the asset lifecycle, allowing faster project start-up, streamlining of workflows, adherence to standards, reduction of risk, more informed decisions, and increased asset performance. Through Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform, OpenRail’s CDE ensures that the “BIM potential” created through digital engineering models can be fully realized in infrastructure project delivery and asset performance.

OpenRail provides a comprehensive modeling environment for streamlined project delivery of rail network assets, unifying design and construction from concept through commissioning and completion. OpenRail delivers a high performance, immersive, 3D modeling environment, enabling instantaneous and interactive parametric modeling of rail corridors, and streamlines and automates established industry workflows to progress from a conceptual stage through detailed design and onwards into construction.

OpenRail’s Components Center provides the catalogs and structured asset and engineering information to unify design, analytical, construction, and asset performance modeling throughout the entire lifecycle. The digital components available through this cloud service can be designed and then tagged with attributes, before being uploaded for use on individual projects or across an organization. The digital components, with all of their associated intelligence, can then be placed dynamically in designs. This intelligence then resides in the CDE, allowing the asset definition to be retained and enriched throughout its lifecycle, through construction and into asset performance.

OpenRail uses a systems engineering methodology to integrate design, collaboration, project management, and quality assurance processes into a lifecycle that is controllable, predictable, and repeatable. The OpenRail Assurance Environment includes OpenRail Progressive Assurance, which deciphers the governance of assurance processes and allows engineering and delivery teams to manage the design and delivery process. It also includes OpenRail Operational Assurance, which enables operations and maintenance teams to adopt a unified approach to compliance and assurance, providing greater visibility during operations. OpenRail’s Assurance Environment reduces costly delays and overruns across and throughout project and asset lifecycles.

OpenRail enables asset performance modeling by bridging the gap between the CAPEX phase of a project through handover into OPEX, enabling secure access to accurate and trusted asset information. OpenRail ALIM configuration management capabilities ensure information integrity through closed-loop change management and help enable positive train control (PTC) deployment by providing best practice configuration management capabilities to address the problem of information integrity in a changing environment. OpenRail Asset Reliability ensures your assets are safe, reliable, and efficient over their operating life and enables you to develop proactive strategies that improve long-term asset reliability and performance. OpenRail Operational Analytics helps you harness asset and operations-related data for decision support that reduces operational costs, improves safety, performance, and reliability, while optimizing asset performance.